Simon scheube



3.3033333. Pocket Book Handle;

No. 233,703. Patented Oct..2 6,-'I880 WITNESSES: INVENTOR ym M ATTORNEYUNITED STATES PATENT Orrtcnt SIMON SGHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

POCKET-BOOK HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,703, dated October26, 1880.

Application filed January 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIMON SOHEUER, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Pocket-Book Handles, of which the following is aspecification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of apocket-book with my improved handle; and Figs. 2 and 3 are,

respectively, a detail side View and a vertical central section of oneof the terminal buttons or tips.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

1 5 This invention has reference to an improved handle for pocket-books,satchels, and similar articles.

Heretofore these handles were retained by the ring set the pocketbooksor other articles,

by means of end buttons or tips, which were attached by cross-rivets orby pins with enlarged heads driven into the ends of the handles. Thesefastenings soon became loose, so as to cause great annoyance and loss.

Myinvention is designed to furnish a reliable and permanentattachment ofthe tips to the handles; and the invention consists in the combination,with the handle of a pocketbook, of end buttons or tips having at theirinnor edges projecting lips bent over and forced into the ends of thehandle and thus firmly secured thereto.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the handle of a pocket-book,satchel, or other ar- 3 5 ticle, said handle being of any approvedconstruction. B are the terminal buttons or tips of the handle, whichare stamped out of sheet metal with a serrated edge, and then drawn intocup shape, as shown in Fig. 3. After the handle ends are passed throughthe rings of the pocket-book orsatchel the serrated edge is upset in aninward direction by apunchingtool, so as to bite the handle, as shown inFigs. 1 and 2. The attaching of the tips is accomplished in a quick andreliable manner 5 by the tool even by inexperienced hands. l The teethof the serrated edge enter into the leather or other material of thehandle, and form a durable and very reliable connection therewith, sothat the handle can resist ei't'ect- 5o ually the strain to which it isexposed in carrying and using the pocket-book or other article.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- .In a pocket-book, the combination, with the handle,of end buttons or tips having at their inner edges projecting lips bentover and forced into the ends of the handle, and thus secured 6o firmlythereto, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 21st day of January, 1880.

SIMON SOHEUER.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, CARL KARP.

